Your art is ÜBER, Goober!

Today, I’m wondering what the frick paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler are doing on the auction block.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think art can only be good if the artist passes some morality test, but this strikes me as being absurd beyond belief. Sadly, I sat by in silence when they auctioned stuff like:

Pol Pot’s Hummel figurines

Vlad the Impaler’s fondue forks

A Barbie coloring book badly filled in by Idi Amin

Caligula’s baseball mitt

Patio furniture hand-crafted by Stalin

But this Hitler thing is just too much. I mean, where does a conversation go after…

“Hey, that’s a real nice painting over your sofa there, Herb.”

“Thanks. Yeah, it’s an original Hitler. He only painted early in life, because then I think he went on to do other stuff…”

Above: Signature detail is seen in Birtley, Shropshire, western England, April 15, 2009. A selection of paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler will be auctioned by Mullock’s auctioneers on April 23 at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire.

Blog Guy,I’m very sorry, but my highly trained and experienced eye has caught a slight flaw in this plan.Either:A) The paintings were actually by some unknown guy by the name of A. HitPer, orB)It really was Adolf Hitler, who didn’t know how to spell his own name – even after he changed it from Adolf Schickelgruber because that was REALLY too hard to spell and it would have taken up too much room on his canvas.It is a little-known fact that this is the exact reason he changed his name because he couldn’t paint small pictures.

[…] As a film buff, I hate lame remakes of classic movies more than anything. Well, more than anything except for dumb fashions, bullfighting, brussels sprouts, gyrocopters, clothing on dogs, Adolf Hitler… […]

Posted by The army couldn’t afford drapes? I’ll be up at the crack of dawn! | Not So Headline News | Report as abusive